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Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M

by timthimmaiah on 10/7/15, 8:03 PM with 90 comments

  • by mcintyre1994 on 10/7/15, 8:36 PM

    > The Pandora app is the single most-used mobile app in the world

    Can this possibly be true? More used than Apple/Google/Spotify music apps maybe, but Facebook? Google search seems hard to believe too?

    I mean 80m users, "many on their phone" when Facebook have put up 1b users in the same day and I'm pretty sure surpassed 50%+ mobile usage?

  • by codva on 10/8/15, 12:36 AM

    One cool thing Pandora might be able to do is analyze their stream data and predict where bands will have enough fans to make money on a live show. I could imagine TicketFly offering a service that essentially tells bands where to play, and of course steer them to a Ticketfly venue whenever possible.

  • by cmurf on 10/7/15, 8:47 PM

    If they can destroy Ticketmaster I'll be happy.

    Edit: And StubHub for that matter.

  • by acjohnson55 on 10/7/15, 8:39 PM

    Between NextBigSound and this, Pandora's making some big moves. Wasn't sure if they'd become a dinosaur, but it'll be interesting how they tie all these capabilities together.

  • by xeromal on 10/7/15, 9:24 PM

    Pandora was founded in 2000. Amazing how long they have survived!

  • by omouse on 10/7/15, 8:27 PM

    Woah, I didn't realize how much $$$ Pandora had!

  • by bmm6o on 10/7/15, 8:54 PM

  • by majani on 10/7/15, 9:17 PM

    Could anyone explain to me why they would do this instead of advertising/affiliate arrangements with all the ticket vendors out there?

  • by kapkapkap on 10/7/15, 8:29 PM

    Seems odd that ticketmaster would not have have been willing to purchase them for more than that (unless of course ticketfly didn't want to go that route, and was leaving money on the table).

  • by samstave on 10/7/15, 10:18 PM

    If anyone from Pandora is reading this:

    * Form a partnership with Uber -- allow me to see venues with events happening on my uber map and allow me to click one button to buy a ride to the venue and a ticket at the same time!

    * For the love of god -- please update the Pandora Home Screen on the website app when listening to music so that the album art and the artist title are BIG and viewable from across the room! Look at how lame this layout is: http://i.imgur.com/QEciRIj.jpg

    Look at how small the album art/artist is and ALL that wasted screen real estate.... I mean the album art is the smallest visual element in that entire UI!!!

  • by anthrophuman on 10/7/15, 10:19 PM

    hopefully now this means I won't keep hearing the same songs over and over on pandora... oh wait, already cancelled my membership

    edit: the truth hurts. I used and paid for pandora one for many years but the fact is they play the same songs over and over regardless of what station I'm on. switched to slacker radio, then rdio more recently and found it to be much better. best of luck to pandora though.